X CARVE Has anyone tried this?

[Phil Swanson]

I am looking into a CNC machine called X CARVE. It is made by Inventables.com. I know that it is more of a home owner type machine but I have never tried doing any type of CNC cutting and found this very interesting. For the price I think that its a good introductory machine

Has anyone seen or tried one of these for carving signs?

 

[DirtyD]

for cutting plastics, acm and thin aluminum it works great. you can even do 3D on HDU quite easily

 

[Phil Swanson]

you can also use a Dewalt 601 router in the CNC for more power and the X Carve has a plunge depth of 2.5". My friend has just ordered one. I can't wait to see it in action. I will be ordering one soon.

 

[DirtyD]

Upgrading to a trim router is a great upgrade - I have the shapeoko 2 and transformed it to a 5 x 8 machine..cuts what i need it to cut! When the time comes I would really really like a Multicam

 

[DStanworth]

Upgrading to a trim router is a great upgrade - I have the shapeoko 2 and transformed it to a 5 x 8 machine..cuts what i need it to cut! When the time comes I would really really like a Multicam

I would love to hear about how you upgraded your Shapeoko.

Dennis@stanworthsign.com